TRACING PAPER
★★★★★ (5 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing tracing paper.
I can’t get over tracing paper. It’s just like regular paper, except see-through. I have no idea how they make it. It might be part glass or plastic, but it doesn’t seem like it. It still folds and tears like paper, but it’s almost impossible to get a paper cut from it. Not completely impossible, but almost impossible.
To learn more about it, I stopped by a science fair at the local middle school to see if any kids there had solved the mystery. None had. I decided to set up my own table in the hopes of figuring it out. Because whoever planned the science fair hadn’t provided extra tables, I had to displace one of the other exhibitors (who had solved the “mystery” of how a volcano works). Just as I got out some supplies, several adults appeared and made it very clear my discoveries were unwanted. I tried explaining the importance of my work, but everyone was too busy yelling and worrying about the busted volcano model on the floor.
The more uses I discover for tracing paper, the more mysterious this product becomes. Here are some of the amazing things you can do with it.
1. Trace the contents of an entire book without having to buy it! This is way cheaper than a Kindle.
2. Make paper airplanes that are almost invisible! I don’t know why real planes aren’t made out of tracing paper.
3. Tape a sheet over your face as a mask to use in a liquor store robbery. You can see them, kind of, but they can’t see you, kind of.
As wonderful as tracing paper is, a word of caution: Do not write dark, personal secrets on a sheet while in public. If someone on the other side has a mirror, he or she can know things meant only for your therapist.
The exciting world of tracing paper continues to unravel itself each day! If you or someone you know has had an experience with tracing paper, share it below.
Please join me next week when I’ll be reviewing ponies.
2 responses
I folded a crane out of tracing paper some years back when I was just a kid. I wasn’t trying to make a crane with superhero invisibility or anything, but it turned out so cool that I made an army of invisible fighting cranes. When I eventually ran out of tracing paper, I tried to make more by rubbing butter on notebook paper. The cranes did not look as good as the invisible ones but they did have amazing exploding fireball powers! I wish I was making this all up.
Hi, Wed! Have you noticed the similarities in our names? Anyway, thanks for writing. I’m sorry that happened to you. I only hope you didn’t forget to lick the deliciousness off your paper.
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